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Story Ideas – Seasonal Story Prompts
By Deb Gallardo
As hard to believe as it may seem, we are barely a month away from Thanksgiving and scarcely two months from Winter and, therefore, Christmas. Whether you’re writing for the web, print publications or just to please yourself, it’s not too early to look ahead to the coming season. In fact, if you write for print publications, you’ve passed their deadlines by about six months. Still, NOW is the time, as we enter that frantic and unique part of the year, to capture in words your take on Thanksgiving and Winter, perhaps for next year’s publication.
To help, I turn to Creativity Portal, who have done it again with great resources. 17 writing prompts from Chris Dunmire, all about Thanksgiving, should give you more than enough Thanksgiving inspiration.
From a laundry list of Thanksgiving terms, people and events, to reflections on tradition, to whether or not you’re alone on “the day,” to Black Friday when retail stores finally make it into the black financially for the year with the official kick-off for Christmas shopping season, to contemplations on gratitude and thankfulness, to some particular questions to ponder. For example: Are the origins of Thanksgiving important? Is this day still relevant today? What do you remember of your first Thanksgiving celebration? Do you watch the football games?
I would add to this, “Do you watch the parade?” and, “Do you flip through all the networks to catch your favorite floats/balloons?”
A second set of prompts, this group centered on Winter, follow the format in previous posts featuring Creativity Portal. The 15 exercises contain photo prompts, thought-provoking questions, 7 sets of clustered word lists relating to winter to spark your imagination, a reminder to write about the season using all five senses, favorite things about winter, dislikes about it, observations on the beginning and ending of the season, reflections on the experience of freshly-fallen snow, walking in it, seeing it, otherwise experiencing it, and comparing winter to the final “season” of life.
To these I would add, holidays, memories, feelings, preparations, wardrobe changes, lifestyle changes/adjustments, coping with winter as we age, and so many more. Tune into these prompts and see if they don’t inspire even more ideas.
Be sure to comment below and let me know what made a difference for you today.
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